First edition. 8vo. Original cream cloth, spine and cover lettered in red, dust jacket. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1940.
The author's first novel, set in the South, follows the lives of five towns-people who interact with a deaf mute named John Singer. The novel received immediate critical acclaim, and catapulted McCullers into fame at the age of 23. A very good copy, extremities of jacket a little rubbed and nicked, spine lightly faded, short tear to the lower left corner of rear panel.
